One Hit Wonder - The Stone Reader

By Jennifer Makowsky

A favored book from one's past. An elusive author who seemingly never wrote anything since. Sounds like the components for a fascinating documentary? You'd be right. [26 September 2007]

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A Boy’s Own Story by Edmund White

By Kevin Shaw

The narrator's voice -- by turns lyrical and brutal, expansive and introspective -- is White's greatest triumph, elevating what could have been a cliché into a fascinating study of sexual reckoning. [22 June 2009]